This Sunday, Bruno Rodriguez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, wrote on his Twitter account that the island feels honored to be able to contribute to peace in Colombia. This, regarding the departure of the Eln guerrilla dialogue delegation.
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“The ELN Peace Delegation withdrew this Sunday, October 2, from Cuban territory, in compliance with the Protocols signed between the Republic of Colombia and the National Liberation Army and the Guarantor Countries,” Rodríguez wrote.
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The Cuban minister added that “Cuba has invariably acted in strict adherence to its status as Guarantor and Alternative Headquarters and according to International Law, and is honored for its impartial, responsible, professional and discreet contribution in the interest of the Peace that the Colombian people yearn for.” “.
The ELN dialogue delegation, “accompanied by the guarantor countries: the Republic of Cuba, the Kingdom of Norway and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” reported in a statement that it left Havana, where it remained for the last few years after the interruption of negotiations with the Government.
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The ELN Peace Delegation withdrew this Sunday, October 2, from Cuban territory, in compliance with the Protocols signed between the Republic of Colombia and the National Liberation Army and the Guarantor Countries.
1/2#TheRoadIsPeace– Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) October 3, 2022
The guerrilla group maintained that “This is a victory for reason and International Law”.
For its part, the Government of Venezuela, the guarantor country of the negotiations between the Colombian Executive and the National Liberation Army (Eln), celebrated this Sunday the “compliance with the agreed protocols” between both parties for the resumption of the dialogue, interrupted since 2019.
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Through her Twitter account, the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, expressed that the Government “welcomes compliance with the agreed protocols” between the Administration of Gustavo Petro and the ELN for the “safe and guaranteed return of the delegation of peace that remained in Cuba”.
The last dialogues with the ELN began in February 2017 in Quitofrom where they were transferred to Havana the following year.
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Shortly after, they were stalled at the beginning of the Duque government (2018-2022) and definitively frozen after an attack by that guerrilla against the police school in Bogotá in January 2019, where 23 people died and nearly a hundred were injured.
With the arrival of the new government headed by Petro peace talks with the ELN were reactivated.
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On September 13, President Nicolás Maduro accepted the request that, he assured, he received the previous day in a letter from Petro, to be “guarantor of the negotiations and peace agreements in Colombia” with the Eln guerrilla. .
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*With information from EFE
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